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Edit Count

Just wanted to let you know you have exactly 8888 edits at the moment, according to your userscore. I thought that was neat. --DragonoftheRust (talk) 04:17, 15 October 2020 (EDT)

That is awesome! Next stop: 80,085 edits. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 15:18, 30 April 2021 (EDT)

Maps look great

Those new maps look really good. I've been away for a while (obviously) and seeing them was a nice welcome back!--Mbear^(talk) 16:21, 3 November 2020 (EST)

Thank you, Mbear. A lot of planning by the team and far more work by Volt and Gruese. I've been seeing appreciation for the maps on Reddit, too, and it is certainly gratifying. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 15:19, 30 April 2021 (EDT)

Store links

Hi Rev, good to see you back in action! Have a virtual pat on the back buddy! :)

A word of caution though: You've been inserting store links into item articles (specifically, BattleRun 2). I think this is a bad idea. Using links to external sites has bitten Sarna in the back multiple times in the past already, because those links go obsolete in a heartbeat when the other site decides to change their makeup, or simply goes offline. We've seen a forum crash, two changes of link structure on the new forum, the death of BattleCorps and some other sites, and one or two revampings of the Catalyst store so far. In each and every case we suddenly had dead links on Sarna. To this day we're seeing occasional IP edits fixing or simply removing old store links from many years ago that are now dead links. My takeaway is to avoid external links like the plague, and straight out copy relevant online content (like official rulings) to talk pages to archive them there. Frabby (talk) 05:40, 4 May 2021 (EDT)

Thanks for the welcome, Frabby. Sure, I can recognize that danger, especially if it has already happened. The reasons for adding them are understood, but it appears the administrative cost is too high (don't get me started on how it is still difficult for new players to even find the store on the CGL site; I do my purchasing on DriveThru). As to adding store links, why don't we just remove them altogether? A large part of wikis involves copying wikicode and changing it. If we do away with it, then it won't be replicated by editors (and errant admin-types).--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:02, 4 May 2021 (EDT)

Links to a list

Hello, do you know a way to jump to a specific point in a list? In the many articles from the various mech designs there is always a list with variants, but I cannot find a anker to jump at it. And I think the others editors are not interested to change the layout or the struture of the text for better navigation. --Neuling

Can you give me an example? As in, a certain 'Mech page with where you want to jump?--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 11:53, 5 June 2021 (EDT)

Archer => Variants => ARC-8M — The preceding unsigned comment was posted by Neuling (talk • contribs) 11:55, 5 June 2021‎.

There might be. Let me mess around with it a bit and I'll get back to you.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 11:57, 5 June 2021 (EDT)

Ok, I don't know how "clean" this is, but these are the steps I took:

1. In the 'Mech article, replace the variant code (ARC-1A) with the following: <span id="variantcode">Variant Code</span>. Change Variant Code to the same term that you replaced.
2. Create a new article with the same name of the variant code, but have it redirect like this: #redirect [[Article name#variantcode]]

The variantcode you use as the span id can be anything you want, but be sure the redirect points to the term you use there.

Hope that helps. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 12:13, 5 June 2021 (EDT)